Once logged into the health portal with their digital signature, users can access this personal health information that has been gathered from various healthcare sources.
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It is mandatory by law for businesses to submit an electronic invoice when supplying goods or services to the Danish government. This regulation creates a barrier to the 300,000 small and medium size enterprises which are mostly relying on paper-based invoicing. “Most of the existing solutions for e-invoicing have been too complex and costly to be viable alternatives for smaller businesses,” explained Lippert
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Paperless prescriptions, online access to medical records and video chats with your doc are just a few features of the Danish healthcare system. Although not everyone has jumped on the digital bandwagon yet, about half of the country’s hospitals and nearly all primary care doctors have opted for electronic records.
The Danish have, according to several studies, the most efficient health information system in the world. All primary care physicians and almost half of the hospitals utilize electronic records, in comparison to just 10 percent of hospitals and 17 percent of physicians here. The Danish health system saves doctors about 50 minutes a day in administrative work, and a 2008 report from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society estimates that the electronic records system saves Denmark $120 million annually.